Bedmond

Entries Tagged as 'Bedmond'

Councillor bites dog

March 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

Well sadly not but it got you reading the post. I was out with Joy Mann in the Lower Road area of her Bedmond and Primrose Hill ward. (For the information of St Albans viewers, this is about as far west and north as you can go in the parliamentary constituency, next to the West [...]

Bedmond Tin Rocket

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

I can well remember my first time in Bedmond. It was circa 1985. With a friend, I had done a great circular cycle ride from St Albans reaching Sarratt. Coming back, we came up Toms Lane, and I well remember the weary push. All I wanted was the ridge and the then easy ride back [...]

Money for old rope

July 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Sandy's blog

We have always had a rope swing in our garden. Our children’s friends love it. Unfortunately squirrels also seem to have a taste for manila hemp and so every so often they bite through the rope where it is tied round the branch and it all comes down in a heap – fortunately without serious [...]

All that is needed for evil to triumph…

July 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

I don’t always quote Conservative philosophers in my speeches. But I did quote Edmund Burke in my speech at the demonstration against the Helioslough freight terminal application organised by STRiFE outside the Alban Arena on Saturday. All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
There must have been a [...]

Sandy will walk it?

June 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

“Sandy Will Walk It” was the crassly hubristic slogan of my first parliamentary election campaign in St Albans in 1983 – complete with a little walking stick man figure as the logo. I didn’t then but I did today – the St Albans Half Marathon at least.
I did the Walking Race which has the [...]

Secondary transfer blues

May 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Sandy's blog

To Helen Mair’s in The Park in Marshalswick to meet a bunch of mums whose children did not get any of their ranked preferences for secondary school in St Albans this year. Anne Main, county councillor Chris White and district councillor Chris Brazier were also there in a crowded living room.
It is quite clear [...]

A beautiful walk in the country

June 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

I completed the half marathon today – but walking rather than running. Even with the best footwear I have never been convinced of the wisdom for bones and joints of road running.
Walking was anyway a lovely way to do it – starting at 8 am before it got too hot and with the leisure to [...]

Sandy 4 St Albans

Sandy Walkington campaigns with the Liberal Democrats across St Albans